Womens Magazine – May 16, 2016
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
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This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Excerpts of the Documentary “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” by Mary Dore.
Womens Magazine – May 2, 2016 – Happy (Post-) May Day
Professors Maria Floro and Stephanie Seguino, two of the premiere voices on gender equity and globalization, demystify trade policy. Did NAFTA cost US jobs or not? Is free trade good or bad for developing economies and is it possible to have a policy that works for workers in both rich and poor countries? How does … Continued
Today on KPFA’s women’s magazine, we explore the intersections of the environment and gender justice. Across the world, women are at the forefront of grassroots environmental movements, resisting land grabs and displacement from the state/extractive industries to fighting the wrath of environmental toxins impacting the health and well being of their communities. We talk to … Continued
This Monday April 18th KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine talks to Erin Araujo and Sarai Garcia Lopez two of the women from Chiapss who created a non monetary, non capitalist feminist economic community where people donate and exchange services and goods for free. Their inspiring documentary, “Cambalache: El Valor de Inter-Cambiar” (The Courage to Inter-Change) which … Continued
Womens Magazine – April 11, 2016
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Universalists like to say art transcends identity, but today’s guests insist it illuminates it. We speak with Sarah Schulman, whose new novel, The Cosmopolitans, is an updating of Balzac’s classic Cousin Bette. Schulman sets the story in the Greenwich Village of the 1950s, using the story to look at intersections of racism, sexism, homophobia and … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 28, 2016: Two Views of Sex Discrimination
We look at the life and legacy of Black feminist, legal scholar, civil rights activist, lesbian and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray. Murray cofounded the National Organization for Women and the Congress on Racial Equality and her research was credited by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a groundbreaking sex discrimination case. She was gender nonconforming and had … Continued
Womens Magazine – March 21, 2016
Central America is not in the mainstream news as much as it was in the 1980s, but U.S. support for repressive regimes and destabilization of populist governments continues. In 2009, after a military coup ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, Hillary Clinton campaigned actively among U.S. allies in Latin America to prevent … Continued
Today on Women’s Magazine we talk to Sam Lai and Margo Okazawa- Rey, two of the organizers of the upcoming 3 day event, “Celebrating Grace Lee Boggs: a Century of Love and Struggle.” Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, Grace Lee Boggs challenged a new generation to throw … Continued